On Monday, January 16, 2017, student clinicians serving in the Veterans Advocacy
Clinic (VAC) at the West Virginia University College of Law had the pleasure of
travelling to Madison, WV, a small community located approximately 35 miles southwest
of Charleston, to meet and exchange ideas with veterans of the Daniel Boone Veterans
of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 5578, Madison, West Virginia.
The meeting provided the opportunity for the student clinicians to see first-hand
some of the issues that West Virginia veterans have with navigating the Department
of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits bureaucracy, a system through which the VAC often
guides local veterans by representing them on benefits claims and appeals.